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My Book “Physics From Symmetry” has been published!

Update 10.4.16:Almost one year after its publication it’s time for a small recap. On the downside, the book has made me neither rich nor famous so far ;). However there are some things that make me particularly happy:

Rutwig Campoamor Stursberg has published a summary and review, in which he writes about Physics from Symmetry: “As a first contact text it is remarkably well written and motivated, and constitutes a very good preparation for the study of the hard formalism of more advanced books. […] Summarizing […] this book describes rather well the not always easy to understand subject of symmetry methods in physics, and will be a valuable addition to the bibliography for any interested reader, and even for the expert, with an alternative point of view.”

I’ve received hundreds of emails from readers all around the world who reported errors, had questions or simply wanted to say that they liked the book. I enjoyed every single one of them, because it reminds me that people actually read what I’ve written. Always feel free to write me at mail |at| jakobschwichtenberg.com.

There will be a German version of Physics from Symmetry by Springer Spektrum and the plan is that it gets published next year.

So, all in all the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive and I want to say thanks to everyone who took the time to write a few words!

After almost 18 month of hard work* my book has finally been published by Springer. Thanks to everyone who helped make the manuscript better and the team at Springer for their patience.

The book is 279 pages long, costs around 49.99$ and is available as hardcover and pdf.

*Writing was fun but editing was … not so fun

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Secondly, I want to say something about the subsubchapter 3.7.8 The (1/2, 1/2) Representation of the book. Here we have a derivation of an element of the (1/2, 1/2) representation of SO(1,3). The derivation is nice along with the work of Matt Robinson’s book [note 142]. But I believe a more mathematically beautiful version of the derivation is available in the book named “Spinors in Physics” by Jean Hladik [page 145]. If you like it, then I think you can refer to it in the book too.

Thanks for your comment and the book recommendation. I’ll have a look at Hladik’s book and include it in the second edition if I like it.

Best wishes,
Jakob

PS: If you haven’t already, writing a short review at Amazon would help me a lot, because good reviews mean that more people discover my book. Moreover, there is a Bonus Chapter for everyone who writes a review. See here.